BS: GBP 50 Note: Scientists nominated

Subject: RE: BS: GBP 50 Note: Scientists nominated
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 27 Nov 18 - 02:20 PM

William Herschel was a truly excellent man, not only a great scientist but a composer of lovely music in the classical style. If you ever go to Bath you should go to his house in New King Street, now a little museum, where you can stand in the back garden on the very spot where he discovered Uranus in 1781. He did lots of other very fine astronomy too.

Subject: RE: BS: GBP 50 Note: Scientists nominated
From: G-Force
Date: 27 Nov 18 - 01:56 PM

I suppose Charles Wheatstone is a bit divisive.

Subject: RE: BS: GBP 50 Note: Scientists nominated
From: DMcG
Date: 27 Nov 18 - 01:39 PM

I was brought up on Middlesbrough where the Rea family from Italy were pretty much the sole suppliers - Chris Rea is part of the family. I was young and foolish at the time, so was taken with the soft ice cream when it appeared, and so contributed to the loss of the Italian article from the town.

We all have something to regret!

Subject: RE: BS: GBP 50 Note: Scientists nominated
From: Jack Campin
Date: 27 Nov 18 - 12:00 PM

...and nobody would bother with Italian ice cream if they could get Czech or New Zealand stuff.

So if we need to nominate a scientist who worked in the UK and would have known what good ice cream was: Ernest Rutherford. Who Theresa May would also have deported.

Subject: RE: BS: GBP 50 Note: Scientists nominated
From: Senoufou
Date: 27 Nov 18 - 11:57 AM

I reckon Walls ice cream is dire.

I think (though not entirely sure) that Ronaldo's ice cream of many flavours (sold in 'Ellie's' in Sheringham) has something to do with the Parravani family, and is based on an Italian gelato recipe.

I read online that bookies are now giving Stephen Hawking odds of 7:2, so it could be that he's favourite.
If one of the criteria is that the choice 'shouldn't be divisive', then Mrs Thatcher will be ruled out straight away.

Subject: RE: BS: GBP 50 Note: Scientists nominated
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 27 Nov 18 - 09:43 AM

Kelly's is only OK if you really must eat ice cream beyond the confines of Italy. Once you've tasted the delights of the true gelateria, the British article seems somewhat amateurish.

Subject: RE: BS: GBP 50 Note: Scientists nominated
From: Jos
Date: 27 Nov 18 - 09:17 AM

The ice cream that is scooped out of a tub or container is usually OK. What I can't abide is that 'Whippy' stuff that's squirted out of a tube.

Subject: RE: BS: GBP 50 Note: Scientists nominated
From: Senoufou
Date: 27 Nov 18 - 09:00 AM

Jos, I like ANY texture of ice cream. But it has to be Cornish (eg Kelly's) or Ronaldo's from their little kiosk in Sheringham.

Subject: RE: BS: GBP 50 Note: Scientists nominated
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 27 Nov 18 - 07:11 AM

Yep, "HawkinG." That one got past me too! :-(

Subject: RE: BS: GBP 50 Note: Scientists nominated
From: Jos
Date: 27 Nov 18 - 05:24 AM

I hate soft ice cream - for me, ice cream needs some texture.

Subject: RE: BS: GBP 50 Note: Scientists nominated
From: Mr Red
Date: 27 Nov 18 - 04:59 AM

Thatcher the milk snatcher didn't do anything clever with ice cream. Soft ice cream was already sold in the US before her Anglicising of it.

And she was a technologist, not a scientist.

As a programmer, Ada Lovelace tops my choices. And put her name in some binary sequence too.

Subject: RE: BS: GBP 50 Note: Scientists nominated
From: Senoufou
Date: 27 Nov 18 - 04:09 AM

Ooops! I missed the final 'g' off my nominee's name.
It's Stephen Hawking.

Subject: RE: BS: GBP 50 Note: Scientists nominated
From: Senoufou
Date: 27 Nov 18 - 03:52 AM

Didn't she do something incredibly trivial with ice-cream? Not exactly a ground-breaking scientist. And imagine the graffiti on the £50 notes, they'd be so defaced most would have to be recalled.

Subject: RE: BS: GBP 50 Note: Scientists nominated
From: DMcG
Date: 27 Nov 18 - 03:46 AM

Dr Who certainly opens up the opportunity to enhance security through multiple holographic images.

I see Mrs Thatcher is nominated. I am not sure she meets the "not devisive" criteria.

Subject: RE: BS: GBP 50 Note: Scientists nominated
From: Senoufou
Date: 27 Nov 18 - 03:36 AM

Stephen Hawkin.
DMcG, I love the Bank of England's stipulation that the nominee must be a real person and not a fictional character.
I would have liked Dumbledore, the Wizard of Oz (was he Australian by any chance?!) or perhaps Dr Who.

Subject: RE: BS: GBP 50 Note: Scientists nominated
From: Jack Campin
Date: 27 Nov 18 - 03:05 AM

Ramanujan had very little problem getting through to the one person who mattered to him, G.H.Hardy. He didn't have to fight the Home Office as he would have to today.

Subject: RE: BS: GBP 50 Note: Scientists nominated
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 26 Nov 18 - 07:57 PM

Stephen Hawkin.

Subject: RE: BS: GBP 50 Note: Scientists nominated
From: Donuel
Date: 26 Nov 18 - 06:58 PM

Jack, you know he had trouble showing his work to the dweebs at Oxford.
He reminds me of Tesla.

Subject: RE: BS: GBP 50 Note: Scientists nominated
From: DMcG
Date: 26 Nov 18 - 04:54 PM

Apparently not. Here are the restrictions from the Bank of England:

You can nominate as many people as you like. But anyone who appears on the new £50 note must:

* have contributed to the field of science
* be real – so no fictional characters please
* not be alive - Her Majesty the Queen is the only exception
* have shaped thought, innovation, leadership or values in the UK
* inspire people, not divide them 

Subject: RE: BS: GBP 50 Note: Scientists nominated
From: Jos
Date: 26 Nov 18 - 04:40 PM

I know the candidates have to be dead, but do they have to be British?

Subject: RE: BS: GBP 50 Note: Scientists nominated
From: Jack Campin
Date: 26 Nov 18 - 04:30 PM

Srinivasa Ramanujan.

Subject: RE: BS: GBP 50 Note: Scientists nominated
From: Jos
Date: 26 Nov 18 - 03:38 PM

So are you suggesting Colin Pillinger for the £50 note?

Subject: RE: BS: GBP 50 Note: Scientists nominated
From: Donuel
Date: 26 Nov 18 - 03:08 PM

Earth time landing on Mars was 2:53 EST

nothing big until dinnertime 5PM when the probe's date with Mars really begins.

Subject: RE: BS: GBP 50 Note: Scientists nominated
From: Donuel
Date: 26 Nov 18 - 02:55 PM

Now we must wait for the probe to say its ready to penetrate Mars.

Subject: RE: BS: GBP 50 Note: Scientists nominated
From: Donuel
Date: 26 Nov 18 - 02:53 PM

The parachute has deployed on its way to Mar's surface and touchdown will happen on Earth right Now...*

Subject: RE: BS: GBP 50 Note: Scientists nominated
From: Stanron
Date: 26 Nov 18 - 12:48 PM

Ada Lovelace?

Subject: RE: BS: GBP 50 Note: Scientists nominated
From: Donuel
Date: 26 Nov 18 - 12:34 PM

Maxwell, Dirac and Newton all enjoying a drink together.

Subject: BS: GBP 50 Note: Scientists nominated
From: DMcG
Date: 26 Nov 18 - 12:31 PM

The Bank of England is choosing a character for the £50 note. It has to be a dead scientist.

I nominated Hertha Ayrton, which has made the very long list.

Who would you pick?